Description
Heather blooms for a few weeks in late summer and that's it. The season is short, the harvest is small, and that's why this is our rarest variety and why it costs a little more. There's no way around that.
The first thing you notice is the texture. Thick, dense, almost gel-like in a way that's entirely natural. A protein unique to heather honey called grayanin gives it that consistency. Stir it and it loosens briefly then settles back. Nothing else behaves quite like it and nothing else can be made to imitate it.
The aroma is distinctly floral with an herbal edge, something between a moorland walk and dried wildflowers. The flavour follows through on that, full and complex, with a warmth and a lingering bitterness that stays longer than expected. It is not a quiet honey.
Raw, from wild Lithuanian heathlands, nothing done to it between the hive and your jar.
Some people try this and it becomes their favourite immediately. Others find it too intense and prefer something softer. Either reaction is fair. It's worth trying once to find out which you are.